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Faced with a system that makes their practice unprofitable, doctors are getting out of the business of taking Medicare patients. After stupid laws that ignore economics have finished destroying the health care system for older people, are those of us who are younger the next to be destroyed? It doesn't matter how much evidence you give to the believers of socialized medicine. Ideology trumps truth.

FTA: "Texas doctors are opting out of Medicare at alarming rates, frustrated by reimbursement cuts they say make participation in government-funded care of seniors unaffordable... More than 300 doctors have dropped the program in the last two years, including 50 in the first three months of 2010... The only way to provide cost-effective care is outside the Medicare system, a system without constant paperwork and headaches and inadequate reimbursement... Now, according to a Texas Medical Association new poll, more than four in 10 doctors are considering the move."

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